Dan

Working on a new poetry rock album, Phosphene River, with Fuzzhead, The Heads, Speed Guru Kawabata Makoto from Acid Mother’s Temple, Mammatus, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Residual Echoes and White Hills. The new Unknown Instructors album, The Master's Voice, is finally finished and will be released by Smog Veil in March 2007. David Thomas and Raymond Pettibon also joined in the fun. Below are some reviews for the Jamnation album released last year by Prestidigitation . . .This is rock ’n’ roll and this is improvised genius, getting to your destination any way you possibly can. So, what does it sound like? Wah guitars, Ash Ra Tempel/Amon Düül II takes on Detroit hi-energy rock ’n’ roll, plus Hapshash percussion and campfires and lots of drugs in the darkness. It sounds inspirational and visionary and like every great freeform rant. It’s a vocal delivery from the other end of the universe that dares to leave huge swathes of instrumental passages intact, McGuire only ever interjecting briefly before backing off so that the waves of sonic tsunami can rammel ya on his behalf. This superb album is something to grow and grow on us all because it sounds like everything we’ve known and loved forever … Look Out!—Julian Cope (Head Heritage) Album of the Month, July 2005 . . .The hypnotic drone of the music coupled with captivating subject matter is thoroughly entertaining and I find that once I start this album I most often listen to it in its entirety. Dan McGuire and this showcase of amazing musicianship manages to capture the spirit of heavy psychedelic rock perfectly and stuffs a snapshot of the current underground music scene right into the third eye of stoner rock.—Dave Jones (StonerRock.com) . . .McGuire has gotten it into his head to speak his spoken words not over some tired Beat-style bongo jam or loungey jazz backing, but over searing electric guitar ramalamajama, epic-length tracks by some far-out and obscure heavy rock bands old and new (American '70s psych monsters the JPT Scare Band and Josefus, modern day stoner space rockers Gas Giant and ILD HU from Holland, and Japan's retro doom hippies Eternal Elysium). When he is talking, he weaves his words perfectly into the rhythms of the music so that we're just digging the totality of the listening experience. —Aquarius Records . . .By fusing two seemingly incongruent art forms—heavy psychedelic music and spoken word poetry—McGuire challenges convention by introducing something completely different. How many other intrepid poet visionaries put themselves out there to meld the two? The thing I admire is that McGuire makes it a true collaboration, his often brilliant poetry just an added instrument vs. an ego-driven focal point. And the collaborations are exciting, especially for those that get their jollies listening to the free-form musical language of jams.—Chris Barnes (Hellride Music) . . .This is a CD you can hear 100 times and never get tired of it as the jams just scream out at you and the spoken words are excellent. A masterpiece; I can't wait for the follow up. 5 out of 5!—Scott Heller (LowCut Magazine) . . .